This feature seems to be clouded in mystery as most people just write it off as a useless feature built into the file manager. But as someone who has some files that I would prefer to keep away from others, is the "Secure" Box even encrypted or is it just like one of those picture hiding apps that add a .nomedia file to the folder that has the thing that's being "hidden".
PwnedBySumo said:
This feature seems to be clouded in mystery as most people just write it off as a useless feature built into the file manager. But as someone who has some files that I would prefer to keep away from others, is the "Secure" Box even encrypted or is it just like one of those picture hiding apps that add a .nomedia file to the folder that has the thing that's being "hidden".
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it is not safe at all, no encryption.
It only moves your files to /storage/emulated/0/.fileManager/safe/files (the magic dot will hide everything!!!) and rename the files to some hash value which is likely stored together with the original file name in some db which checks your access rights.
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it is not safe at all, no encryption.
It only moves your files to /storage/emulated/0/.fileManager/safe/files (the magic dot will hide everything!!!) and rename the files to some hash value which is likely stored together with the original file name in some db which checks your access rights.
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Damn that sucks. I was hoping I would be able to ditch my encryption app for this instead.
Thanks anyways though.:good:
PwnedBySumo said:
Damn that sucks. I was hoping I would be able to ditch my encryption app for this instead.
Thanks anyways though.:good:
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I've never used an encryption app to hide any content. All I ever needed was a good file manager, that magic dot and a random folder.
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All of us at sometime want or need to keep some of our files secret on our phone.
Quite by accident I found a feature in an app called File Expert (download free from Android Market or attached to this post) which allows you to hide files from media detection.
All you need to do once you have installed File Expert is browse to the folder(s) containing the media files you want to hide, press the folder for 2-3 seconds and select the option 'Hide files from media detection', reboot your phone and thats it done! Unhiding is just as simple; just select unhide from the File Expert menu in exactly the same way.
I can confirm that it works on both picure and video files. I haven't tried it on other media so am unable to comment. The only downside is that you can only do it at folder level so I would suggest that if you have a folder with a mixture of both files you want to hide AND be visible, simply create a sub-folder, move the files you want to hide to that and hide it
Hope you find this useful
I use colournote to hide notes if I need to. Audio manager from the market can be used to hide files as well..
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Simply create a new file named .nomedia using any file explorer in the folder you want to hide(aka exclude from media scanning)
Use hide it pro to hide files
It appears that people are missing the point of my thread. Let me explain:
People like us who are experienced Android users may well know how to hide files but this doesn't mean others new to the OS do so it was with this in mind that I started the thread.
I just happened to find an alternative use for a program which is recommended on this site for file management and thought I would share my knowledge (which is what I thought was the point of a tips and tricks thread). I use Audio Manager aka Hide it Pro but my thread wasn't intended to be about that or file hiding programs in general it's about File Explorer and how we can use it to hide files and folders if we want to.
I'm not telling people this is what they should use; if people choose to, great, if not then I'm not going to get upset about it. As I said I'm just offering an alternative method of hiding private folders/files using a program that many people are already using and may not know that the option exists - I certainly didn't.
Hope this clears up any confusion and clarifies my reasons for creating this thread
Lol, trying to hide your nude pics.
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Simply create a new file named .nomedia using any file explorer in the folder you want to hide(aka exclude from media scanning)
Use hide it pro to hide files
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Thats true!
Actually any file or folder with A dot (.) in front of it will be assumed hidden so don't bother about the the naming.
Well, don't forget that anybody can see your file or folders if he selects "show hidden files" in the file explorer.
dilzo said:
Lol, trying to hide your nude pics.
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most users need for this is for that reason and hiding them from the wife/gf
I can save a file to the SD card very easily. But then when I hit "move to private", it goes in the internal storage. Since the S7 doesn't support Marshmallow's storage feature, there are a limited number of games and such that you can move to the SD card. While it isn't a problem now, the 32GB of internal storage can be used up rather quickly. So is there a way to make it so I can make something on my SD card private without moving it to internal so that it doesn't take up space? Thanks.
There is one way if you wanna try a different file browser. Try File Commander on the Play Store. There is a hide apps switch which is password protected and you can hide ANY file at all, singular or multiple files that you choose. I use it and it's great.
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There is one way if you wanna try a different file browser. Try File Commander on the Play Store. There is a hide apps switch which is password protected and you can hide ANY file at all, singular or multiple files that you choose. I use it and it's great.
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Hey, that did not work for me. It wouldn't recognize any files that I had saved on my SDCard. I found a different, easier way to do it, though. Thanks for your help!
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Hey, that did not work for me. It wouldn't recognize any files that I had saved on my SDCard. I found a different, easier way to do it, though. Thanks for your help!
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Share please
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Share please
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I made some huge long post about it with pictures so that people who aren't good at all with phones could easily search google and find it. But it wouldn't allow me to link imgur pics since I'm new. And I can't figure out how to add pics from computer. So I couldn't post it.
Easy Mode:
Go to "my files"
Put all the pics/whatever you want hidden in it's own folder.
Rename that folder whatever you want (something dumb like "simdata" or something will give a lil more privacy with it).
Put a "." at the beginning of the file name. This tells your phone to hide it.
Now it will be hidden. Of course, this isn't the same since the file is just hidden. If someone wanted to, they could search your phone, go to your files app, and hit "show hidden content". But, it does work great for hiding pics of your gf's tits if your mom wants to look at your pictures from a recent trip. And it won't take up space on the internal storage to do it. If you want to unhide the content, just go to the same files app, hit "show hidden content" and then "rename" with removing the "." from it.
Alternatively, create a folder on SD and in that folder create a file called .nomedia
Now any pics/vids you move to that folder will be hidden from Photos app
Is there anyway of recovering files that where made private? Reason being my device now fails to reanable private mode...
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It seems I can't allow app permissions in Security Folder, like Solid Explorer can't access my files. I'm only able to click on the "deny" button when the permission box pops up. Any help? Thanks
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It seems I can't allow app permissions in Security Folder, like Solid Explorer can't access my files. I'm only able to click on the "deny" button when the permission box pops up. Any help? Thanks
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Did you make a copy of Solid Explorer in the secure folder?
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Did you make a copy of Solid Explorer in the secure folder?
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I added Solid Explorer in secure folder, is there a proper way to "make a copy"?
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I added Solid Explorer in secure folder, is there a proper way to "make a copy"?
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I'm pretty sure that's the only way, you did it right. Maybe Samsung won't allow it because it isn't a system app like "My Files ", which does work in the secure folder. I suspect that's it, just like the secure folder will only let you use the Samsung keyboard, not Gboard...because they're not system apps they're not "secure".
This drove me nuts. Surely it's a bug? Took me ages to resolve. You have to hit deny. Then go into Secure Folder and press and hold the app. (Do this for all of them) Hit APP INFO. Go to PERMISSIONS and manually grant access to them all. Then when you go back into the app it will work.
Now, I can't edit any photos in Secure Folder because it wants to grant access to "Photo Editor" but as this seems to be a component rather than a standalone app - you can't "access" it as such to resolve the issue as above.
Is this just on the S8+ because I expected to see many more issues when I was searching for a fix?
The reason is an application is masking your screen. They do it for your own security to avoid other apps to fool you when you accept a permission. However, it is not clever enough to let you know which app is masking your screen to avoid the problem. Normally it happens when you install an application, which leaves a permanent icon or handle on the screen. In my case, I have Fooview which has a permanent handle on the screen. Also an iphone like control center which has a swipe up activated handle. I also installed round edges for Galaxy S7 edge which puts black pixels at the corners and simulates round edges. All cause trouble for secure folder permissions, and in many cases for normal phone apps permissions. With the later one I had a lot of trouble with all phone permissions which was really frustrating. However, they made it more clever later by turning it off automatically when a permission is requested.
In this case you need to turn off the masking apps one by one manually.
I hope it's helpful for other people suffering from this problem.
I didn't have this problem with the 3 :-\
Every time I open Google Photos I get the question to back up folders with pictures of stickers, ads etc. I don't think this is a setting but a bug?
Adding a .nomedia file helps but they keep on coming.
Anyone else noticing this?
I'm having the same issue! Very annoying when trying to organize my Google photos. I have over 8 different ad albums. Deleting only deletes some of the files.
Yes. OOS 9.0 isn't generating the .nomedia files properly for those folders. There's two ways to handle this:
1) Use the Nomedia app from Google Play to hide individual folders.
2) Use a file manager app (not all work) to create a .nomedia folder in android/data. This way is a bit more finicky and complicated, but will cover all the folders contained within.
After you do either of those steps, reboot the phone, and those folders will be hidden.
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Yes. OOS 9.0 isn't generating the .nomedia files properly for those folders. There's two ways to handle this:
1) Use the Nomedia app from Google Play to hide individual folders.
2) Use a file manager app (not all work) to create a .nomedia folder in android/data. This way is a bit more finicky and complicated, but will cover all the folders contained within.
After you do either of those steps, reboot the phone, and those folders will be hidden.
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Those will be hidden, but later we will have new ones. Hopefully there will be a bug fix [emoji106]
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Those will be hidden, but later we will have new ones. Hopefully there will be a bug fix [emoji106]
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If you put a .nomedia file in the android/data folder, it will cover all folders created in the future inside there as well. The only other place I had to put one was for WhatsApp stickers in WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Stickers.
I do agree that OP needs to do a bugfix for this, though.
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If you put a .nomedia file in the android/data folder, it will cover all folders created in the future inside there as well. The only other place I had to put one was for WhatsApp stickers in WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Stickers.
I do agree that OP needs to do a bugfix for this, though.
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Thanks for the tip! Works great!
Hi all,
If I am in the wrong subforum please help me posting this where I need to.
I have this annoying thing with my new OnePlus 6T running the OxygenOS 9.0.11 (Android 9.0 Pie) where the OnePlus Gallery shows me all icons, pics, videos and so on from the games and apps I am using so I end up deleting between 500-1000 items almost every day.
Is there a way to turn this all so the apps don't download all of this?
I know this might be to save bandwidth on cellular data but I don't need this so it would be nice to be able to turn this off.
So far I the OxygenOS on my OnePlus it's fast it's great it have a few quirks here and there or just me since I been using iPhone for 4-5 years.
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puma99dk| said:
Hi all,
If I am in the wrong subforum please help me posting this where I need to.
I have this annoying thing with my new OnePlus 6T running the OxygenOS 9.0.11 (Android 9.0 Pie) where the OnePlus Gallery shows me all icons, pics, videos and so on from the games and apps I am using so I end up deleting between 500-1000 items almost every day.
Is there a way to turn this all so the apps don't download all of this?
I know this might be to save bandwidth on cellular data but I don't need this so it would be nice to be able to turn this off.
So far I the OxygenOS on my OnePlus it's fast it's great it have a few quirks here and there or just me since I been using iPhone for 4-5 years.
Look in my signature for phone description.
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I've noticed that thumb nails from game ads and things like that were being saved. Someone said to create a file and name it no. Media. But that didn't work for me
rhaneyjr said:
I've noticed that thumb nails from game ads and things like that were being saved. Someone said to create a file and name it no. Media. But that didn't work for me
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The file should be named. .nomedia
amit3880 said:
The file should be named. .nomedia
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Yeah. Sorry didn't correct that. And it still didn't work
Sorry to be a noob back on android I use to be better at this, but where should I place this file????
Is it a empty .txt file or a folder???
puma99dk| said:
Sorry to be a noob back on android I use to be better at this, but where should I place this file????
Is it a empty .txt file or a folder???
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Its nor a .txt file nor a folder
Just creat a new file without any name and only extension nomedia inside the folder which you dont want to show in gallery
The file is .nomedia
amit3880 said:
Its nor a .txt file nor a folder
Just creat a new file without any name and only extension nomedia inside the folder which you dont want to show in gallery
The file is .nomedia
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My problem is that all the icons, pics, and so on from the app gets saved into the same default folder as all my pictures from the camera so this solution doesn't do what I want then.
If I cannot stop the apps from doing this and I cannot hide them what to do then???